25 May
2016
25 May
'16
6:52 p.m.
On May 25, 2016, at 3:49 PM, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> wrote:
That version of the life of Ramanujan seems good,
Reviews from actual math people: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8427 <http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8427> (Peter Woit) http://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201602/rnoti-p178.pdf (George Andrews) http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2707 (Scott Aaronson, spoilers!) The general consensus is that it’s a good film and they got things pretty much right except for fudging the ages of Hardy and Ramanujan’s wife. I haven’t seen it yet. Regards, Jon